At bottom, antipsychiatry is still psychiatry. And it doesn't really address itself to women's problems.

The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.

It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not why she should reject them: the problem is rather to understand why she accepts them.

The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.

It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature.

Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else.

The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.